Rachel Williams (born April 29, 1967)[2] is an American model, TV presenter, and landscape designer.
Her parents divorced when she was five years old, and she and her younger brother, filmmaker Tod "Kip" Williams, lived with their mother in the West Village in Lower Manhattan.
[3] In November 1985, Williams was discovered by a Click Model Management employee while visiting her father's studio.
After another model became sick and was unable to make a swimsuit shoot for Mademoiselle, Williams was assigned to the job on the recommendation of Grill.
She also appeared in advertising campaigns for Bon Jour jeans, Ciara perfume, Absolut vodka,[4] and Revlon.
[5] Dissatisfied with the quality of her modeling jobs, Williams left Click after two years and signed with the Ford Agency.
In 1995, she appeared in an ad campaign photographed by Richard Avedon and walked the runway for Thierry Mugler's Winter haute couture show,[5] and was the cover model for the Red Krayola's EP Amor and Language.
In March 1995, Williams' manager publicly announced her relationship with British pop singer Alice Temple.
'I never thought to hide it,' the megamodel known as The Amazon shrugged in coming out of the fashion closet to shocked headlines.